Quote by John Vaillant

[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt…

— Anton Chekhov

“Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to…

— Henry Jenkins

“As and old (and clandestine) Soviet joke used to express it, the problem with the past...is that it is always so unpredictable.”

— Francis X. Blouin Jr

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

“Jokes are funny only in context. There is no such thing as abstract clever word play. Words have meaning in the world in which…

— Robert Jensen

“Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”

— David Crystal

“A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.”

— John O'Sullivan

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the…

— Tom Malinowski

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has…

— Jean Webster

“Don’t give up on your dreams, goals, plans or Ideas because people are laughing at them. People who are narrow minded laugh at people…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the…

— Jimmy Carr

“Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered…

— Dick Francis